{"id":183440,"date":"2024-02-23T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-discover-240-million-year-old-dinosaur-that-resembles-a-mythical-chinese-dragon"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:24:10","slug":"scientists-discover-240-million-year-old-dinosaur-that-resembles-a-mythical-chinese-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-discover-240-million-year-old-dinosaur-that-resembles-a-mythical-chinese-dragon","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover 240-million-year-old dinosaur that resembles a \u201cmythical Chinese dragon\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-240-million-year-old-dinosaur-that-resembles-a-mythical-chinese-dragon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of international scientists have discovered 240-million-year-old fossils from the Triassic period in China that one scientist described as a \u201clong and snake-like, mythical Chinese dragon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 16-foot-long aquatic reptile, called Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, has 32 separate neck vertebrae \u2013 an extremely long neck, according to the National Museums of Scotland, <a href=\"https:\/\/media.nms.ac.uk\/news\/palaeontologists-reveal-a-240-million-year-old-chinese-dragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">which announced the news<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The new fossil has a snake-like appearance and flippers and was found in the Guizhou Province of southern China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international scientists have discovered 240-million-year-old fossils from the Triassic period in China that one scientist described as a \u201clong and snake-like, mythical Chinese dragon.\u201d The 16-foot-long aquatic reptile, called Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, has 32 separate neck vertebrae \u2013 an extremely long neck, according to the National Museums of Scotland, which announced the news [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}